In today's competitive job market, it is essential that everyone know how to post a job online. With several worthwhile job sites available on the Internet, you have an abundance of choices to use in order to get the word out that you need to hire. What you have to do is think about where the job request will get the best exposure in order to draw in the right talent.

Steps

1

Look over the job description, choosing the most important items to write the major needs of the job. Make notes of each in the order of importance. Prepare a paragraph description.

2

Add a link to your company's home page with an icon that will take the job-seeker to the available jobs page. This step should hold valuable descriptive information and may be omitted, of course, if there is no company web site.

3

Choose from a variety of online job sites.

There are nationally known sites such as Monster.com that sell you an ad to display your job for a fee, depending upon your need.

Free sites such as Job Spider and PostJobsFree allow you to place jobs at no charge.

4

Open an account with the web site of your choosing and include the name and contact information of your business.

5

Decide whether you are listing your job nationally or locally. This is critical to the distribution of your opening.

6

Enter the requested information.

Show what the job opportunity entails. Specific details allow people with the right qualifications to notice your ad.

Include keywords in the description that a job seeker would use to find it.

You may want to keep salary and benefit details to a minimum or leave them out completely.

7

Resist the temptation to post duplicate openings if you have more than one location.

Use wording in the original post to show there are more locations from which to choose.

Allow the web site to use your varied locations as keywords.

8

Insert specific information about the job skills needed.

Include the name of the job and any prerequisites such as education.

It is important to go into detail about the skills expected.

9

List any perks of the job in order to lure top talent. This is an important action dependent upon competition in the field.

10

Keep it succinct. You don't want to bore the reader.

11

Leave contact information in the ad, so an interested applicant will know how to contact you. Publishing a link to the company web site (if applicable) is a good idea.